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It's the ultimate wish fulfillment. Forget about reality and embrace the fantasy. You get to live hundreds of years (in your head) and play games all the time.

It's a fitting ending for this sort of story, but I was kinda hoping for a "twist" at the end. Having Kirito embrace reality along with Asuna instead of going back to fantasyland would have been the most awesome ending in my book. But well, we can't always get what we want so yeah.

It's the ultimate wish fulfillment. Forget about reality and embrace the fantasy. You get to live hundreds of years (in your head) and play games all the time.

It's a fitting ending for this sort of story, but I was kinda hoping for a "twist" at the end. Having Kirito embrace reality along with Asuna instead of going back to fantasyland would have been the most awesome ending in my book. But well, we can't always get what we want so yeah.

Haha no problem. I was also irked by the fact that Kirito and Asuna practically go back to the UW even after all the crap they had to go through, but just like everyone else has been saying in this thread, his existence revolves around the virtual realm...

Spoiler:

Still, 200 years in the UW seems ridiculous to me. But apparently a lockdown occured during Kirito's stay where the " two STL auto and Main visualizer in the ALO game and RATH company had disconnected, speeding up time in the UW 5 million times" I think the STL visualizer is the Soul Translator technology introduced in VOlume 10. I'm just skimming through these threads LOL.

Once again, I am not entirely sure if Kawahara will entirely follow his web novel script. But I'm content with this kind of ending, especially since it might be for another few years until we finally see the ending of SAO (seeing how it takes several months for each volume to come out).

Yeah the thread also mentioned that Kirito still has brain damage from the incident. Apparently when Johnny Black assaulted him, Kirito didn't die, but his stopped heart and the lack of blood flow caused intensive brain damage... and I'm guessing even with his body in the UW.. he's still not getting better.

Here's the ending to Alicization summary from a chinese reader passed to me from tomtkp

Spoiler for REALLY HEAVY SPOILERS:

All channels on TV had their debate on ALICE, that it was impossible to create an AI that is so identical to human beings. It looks like RATH would open a press conference regarding ALICE, with the speaker from RATH are Alice (an ALICE herself) and Prof. Rinko. Alice has a robot body specially made for her, with its skin made by silicon, wearing Asuna's school uniform. The talks were about Alice ofc, and about fluctlight's (artificial soul) human rights, etc.

The press conference was abruptly ended with Alice leaving the place suddenly saying that she have a sudden errand to do. It turned out that Alice went to the Roppongi RATH lab, where Kirito and Asuna were still in coma. The two of them had finally awaken. (tomtkp: remember what happened at the end of Chapter 8?)

The scene then changed to the hospital where the two (Kirito and Asuna) were having their rehabilitation, Kikuoka visited Kirito, while Asuna had already been allowed to leave the hospital a few days ago while Kirito still needed more treatment.
The 3 of them had a conversation, which was mainly about the possible fate of UW, as the Ocean Turtle was now in the hands of the government now. They wanted to close down the OT and put the control under them, but they can't, because if they did it'll be made clear that the USA was behind the attack and the government itself had received their money to stop the Aegis(tomtkp: I think it was the ship that was supposed to protect Ocean Turtle from any attacks) to move that time. (tomtkp: It's a corruption scandal!!!!!)
The only solution would be to get the artificial fluctlight their human rights. And for that it would need lots of Real World people to dive into UW, have a direct communications with the people of UW, to show how human and how real the people of UW were.
The problem was that they didn't have the line/server to connect to OT and UW.

The scene switched again to ALO, where they (Kirito and Asuna) had a big meeting with the ALO players about that incident (UW War), also to give the info of what really happened there to the players who sacrificed their account and helped Kirito and friends on that war.
The scene ended with Alice calling for Kirito, and told him that she was in a deep depression.

On the other hand, Higa already was hesitating for one hour whether he will press the enter button.
The enter button would start the program of activating the copy of someone's fluctlight. In an experiment long time ago, his own (Higa's) copy started to collapse after only a minute. He made up his mind and pressed the enter button and activated the copied soul of Kirito. Copy Kirito asked: "Is that Higa there?". Copy Kirito explained that he already predicted that this can happen (when he was still the real Kirito), that if both him and Asuna's fluctlight were copied and activated they (the copy) will use their time to try and act for the unison of Real World and UW. If only Asuna was copied, she would ask to be erased at once. If it was Kirito only, he would fight for UW's sake as he already understood that UW was in an unstable condition right now, referring to how UW needed electricity to only keep going on, etc. The conversation ended with copy Kirito coming up with a solution, that they needed the help of Kayaba (Heathcliff) while Higa noticed the time had passed over 1 minute since copy Kirito had been activated...

The scene changed again to Kirito's house. Sugu asked Kirito to tell her all about what happened at UW, after coming to his room finding that Kirito cried out loud about Yujio.
In the morning, Rinko called Kirito and told him that Alice was missing.
After a few moments, a postman came on, sending quite a big package. Kirito opened it up and screamed to find pieces of bodies inside, who was Alice's. He helped her to assemble her into one whole body again.

Alice told him that she always wanted a time to have a talk with real Kirito, and that she was really angry that Kirito didn't tell her that they might won't be able to meet each other again that time(because of the FLA going out of control). He called Rinko, she apologized and would let Alice to have a night at Kirito's house.
Then, he guided her around the house, and got to the doujo and had a sword practice there. The result was a win for Alice as she used her headbutt on Kirito. It ended with Alice on top of Kirito.

The night Alice had a dinner with Kirito and family(dad, mom, and Suguha). Kirito used the chance to tell his father that he want to go to the university to study electronics. In the night before he sleeped, he said goodbye to MMO only to find that he can't a few moments later.

Then, Alice came to Kirito's room and pass to him a printed email sent to him by someone. It was a code and when the code was solved, it actually showed an IP address. Kirito understood it immediately that it was an address for a server, a line that can be used to dive into UW. He left a note for the family and left with Alice to RATH lab and also invited Asuna as well.
The three met there, the girls had a catfight a bit and Kirito left them both and went inside.
The 3 dived into UW, and found themselves at the space...

Epiloque END

Prologue is really short. It's about how they beat a space monster and ended with the 3 of them waving their hands at 2 Integrators (Integrator Knights in UW) they helped to beat the monsters.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, something about 200 YEARS that just doesn't seem right. If I had to live that long in a VR world, then go back and live 100 years (since they probably have higher age expectancies considering the year) I wouldn't be able to cope with it. First of all, the 200 years, even if I spent it with my love, would probably make me go mad especially since I wouldn't grow or change. Then, after going back into the real world, I would be unable to do a lot of the daily things humans do, just changing into my real body would feel weird. I would probably have problems doing daily chores and activities not made in the VR world. Also, I would have to pay attention to the possibility of actually getting physically hurt and not just taking health point damage. In addition, after that many years with sword skills and powers of taking down enemies, life as a real person wouldn't feel right at all. I'd be reaching out to open my inventory panel or check my skills after getting that habit in UW, so that would make it really awkward to others. After 200 years, even if it was a digital world, I wouldn't be able to recognize anyone I used to know. Most of these things I would think would apply to anyone, even the above average Kirito.
I really hope he makes it something more reasonable in the published version, something like 20 years, anything over 50 would still be enough to drive a lot of people mad after switching back to real. The ending told by Fallen is pretty good, with the Alice in real and what UW is. However, if you care to do so, is discussion on UW war and what it is anywhere in here? I have no clue what it is

...I already asked in the Tech Thread about how rights to AI's should be allocated, but nobody seems to care about such "boring" discussions. Then here comes Kawahara tackling the issue head-on. Darn, SAO is truly a masterpiece in my eyes yet again. Going through all those theme's in different arcs of SAO plus doing them in such a way that doesn't seem inane or preachy.

As for "not getting hurt," UW is different. People DO get hurt in there. xD

Ok but either way in the end, Fallen3dge made it clear that Kirito, Asuna, and Alice go back to the UW even after all the further rehabilitation and shiz they went through in the UW. And wait, when you said Kirito had to repiece Alice together, is Alice an android/robot? LOLOLOLOL NO WAY! On the thread it did mention Alice being something mechanical, but I thought they were just Bs'ing shiz....